Any ideas for an environmental project that will impact my community?

Question

My AP Environmental Science teacher has assigned us a final project. It's pretty open ended; we are supposed to do a project that will somehow impact or educate the community in either a big or small way, as long as it is meaningful.

I have to have an idea by tomorrow.

People in the past have painted pictures (I'm a horrible artist) or set up booths at the fair (I'm not in a large enough group).

Please help me think of things I can do for this project.

Thank You,

Json Fisher :]

Answer 1

Look at a composting project. Here's one my daughter is involved in at UC Davis. I'm sure if you contacted them they would be happy to get you started. They love outreach to schools. It's pretty simple. They collect mainly veggie scraps from campus cafeterias, put it in a bin with their wiggly little friends and let them do all the hard work...See the pics

Your teachers will LOVE the final product for their gardens!

http://projectcompost.ucdavis.edu/

Good luck!

Answer 2

Jason, in our small community of about 3500 thousand people we have just put up these energy saving windmills, if you want to know more about them then go to a web page on Esperance, Western Australia. It will explain in detail how they work and save money. Goodluck.

Answer 3

You could build bike racks out of discarded metal pipes, and then donate the racks in an effort to encourage travel via bicycle.

You could also set up a spot at your school to plant a community garden with the approval of school administrators.

Answer 4

Pick up trash.  Find a creek, park, your street, your school grounds...

Organize a cleanup and go to work.

Painting pictures or setting up booths accomplishes  NOTHING.

Answer 5

A campaign to reduce our use of fossil fuel.

a) alternative fuels

b) alternative ways to travel ( walk, cycle, rollerblade, car pool, public transport, etc)

c) alternative ways to heat / cool / light homes

Answer 6

I can't stay quiet any longer about the politics of this land.  I have been contacting my senators and congressman about a couple of issues, and they were very glad to hear from me.  Here are the 2 issues:



1.  The senate is voting soon on the Supplemental Spending Bill for the Iraq War, and Diane Feinstein put in an amendment to grant amnesty to 1 million ILLEGAL immigrants because the produce is not getting picked in time.  Our economy is in so much trouble, and there are lots of LEGAL citizens that need the money and would be willing to work in agriculture.  There are plenty of youth that need good, hard-working jobs to earn them the money they need for college, cars, etc.  Feinstein's amendment is very inappropriate.  Once you start the amnesty policy, there will be no end.  I just saw a presentation on how excessive immigration will undo our country in many ways...too far to mention.



2.  Our country has lots of oil reserves in many states and out in the surrounding oceans.  We have the technology to drill for it in a responsible way to conserve the environment.  The Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah have oil shale that can be successfully developed for oil, and the Energy Policy of 2005 directed the BLM to lease these lands to those willing to develop the shale oil.  Now a moratorium was imposed as part of the Consolidated Appropriation Act of 2008 to NOT allow the BLM to lease land for shale oil development.



It is my opinion that we should be calling our representatives and letting them know we will not vote for them if they don't allow us to glean our own oil resources in our own land and help our own people and our economy.  To go begging to Saudi Arabia for more oil is humiliating and unnecessary.  This is the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of the world to take our money by the billions and give it to countries that are not friendly to us and then prohibit our own people from providing for themselves.



I have sent this out to many in different states.  If we each do our part, and spread the word, something can be done about this situation.  We the people are still in charge if we will take the responsibility.  I had a very good experience calling my representatives, both Republican and Democrat.  Their phone numbers were in the phone directory.  



Thanks for reading, and I hope you will take action.

Answer 7

Get your local community to chip in and buy solar photovoltaic panels for your school or community center building. You could cover the entire roof and it would not cost any one person too much. Then get your local utility to install and mainatin them and provide each contributor with a reduction in their electric bill based on their individual contribution. Once that building is finished, start another.